Matt Furie

May 20, 2008 9:18 PM

The Art of Matt Furie (many images NSFW)
posted by puke & cry (23 comments total)

Eponysterical.
posted by nicwolff at 9:30 PM on May 20 [2 favorites]

Matt Furie will be in the next Meathaus anthology, Meathaus S.O.S.

Thanks!!
posted by not_on_display at 9:35 PM on May 20

Not Matt Furey. Got it.
posted by blixco at 9:43 PM on May 20 [1 favorite]

Here's a yes or no interview with the artist.
posted by msaleem at 9:59 PM on May 20

I feel like I'm back in high school, doodling in my notebook.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:13 PM on May 20

There's a couple other interviews and a video on his bio page.
posted by puke & cry at 10:14 PM on May 20

Someone pass the eyewash and a squeegee please. Thanks.
posted by CuJoe at 10:51 PM on May 20

I don't like it at all.
posted by ZaneJ. at 1:04 AM on May 21

Not Safe For Sanity is more like it.
posted by hwestiii at 2:35 AM on May 21

Good-freaky.
posted by Drexen at 3:12 AM on May 21

Took me, like, three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip.
It's probably the best drawing I've ever done.
posted by kcds at 3:27 AM on May 21 [2 favorites]

At first glance I was, "yeah, wotever". Then I looked again, now I'm hooked. This is fantastic (literally, yes, but still) stuff. Thanks for the post.
posted by freya_lamb at 4:06 AM on May 21

I went to college with this guy, but I didn't know him well (although we both dated the same girl and it was a very small school, so you know something about everyone). From what I remember of his work then, he has always mined this sort of creepy fantastical vein. And I was always jealous of his name.
posted by Falconetti at 5:22 AM on May 21

Take one part Monster Manual, one part Muppet Show, one part Crumb, sprinkle liberally with LSD while playing the Hevy Metal soundtrack and voila!
posted by Pollomacho at 5:29 AM on May 21 [1 favorite]

Awesome! His site is hosted by a friend of mine who runs a small press, Better Non Sequitur and also a short fiction site, Pequin (1000 words or less!)
posted by beerbajay at 5:51 AM on May 21

P: ... Is there more to your work than strange creature creation, non sequitur juxtapositions, and irony?

MF: No.

Big points for honesty.
posted by rusty at 6:10 AM on May 21

I forgot that when I was in college I was an editor for the literary journal and we published some of his art (nobody read or bought the literary journal we produced). I hope he gets really famous, because I am probably one of a handful of people that actually still have those journals. I also meant to mention before that I like his work, especially because he doesn't seem to try to overlay it with meaning and it seems to come straight from the his psyche.
posted by Falconetti at 7:49 AM on May 21

Reminiscent of good high-school doodling, sure, but I liked it a lot. My fave.
posted by everichon at 7:54 AM on May 21

It's as though Lynda Barrie were doing graphic novels for Stephen King.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 12:19 PM on May 21

That was very cool, thanks for the post.

This one is awesome. It lured me in... "Aww, look! It's a cute little monster reading a book!" Click. "Aww, look! There's a severed limb hanging above his head! And what's his cute little friend eating?" Heh. Good stuff.

This was by far my favorite, though.
posted by TrinaSelwyn at 12:24 PM on May 21

Fantastical + horrifying = brilliant reminds me of the Perry Bible Fellowship
posted by adamms222 at 1:30 PM on May 21

Wulffmorgenthaler for daily mind-bending weirdness.
posted by five fresh fish at 6:29 PM on May 21

I just noticed that his comics weren't actually on that site I linked to. They're on his myspace blog. Might want to check those out too.
posted by puke & cry at 9:12 PM on May 21